Just got back from watching this years Eurovision Song Contest. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s basically an annual competition where countries from Europe send a song to be performed live against each other, and once all the participants (24 of them) have finished, the people from those countries then can vote for their favourites by phoning in.
So its a bit like those Idol, or Singstar, or whatever they call those shows these days. Except it’s taken on a whole level higher by pitting countries against each other. What can I say about this year? Well it gets worse and worse with every year, and I don’t even know why I keep watching it every year.
Sure last year was quite funny with Lordi, but these year was really surreal and absurd. I don’t even think that I liked any of the songs (yes, I actually like one or two usually every year, so sue me if they are pop), like last year’s Lordi song. One thing that I did really enjoy this year was the German (I live in Austria, thus German channels) commentator who was more or less slandering every entry once it was over.
I actually started looking forward to the commentary and not the upcoming song. British being British, they made total fools out of themselves like they do every single year, but this year it was really sad. But they gave enough ammunition for the commentator to make three whole jokes in space of 40 seconds about them.
All in all it sucked. Kudos to the commentator though, he was the only reason why it was worth watching it this year. Oh yeah, and of course the Russian girls who looked much nicer on the stage than they do in the picture above.
